Incident All ledgers
WOO X: $14.0m
WOO X lost $14.0m on 24 July 2025. Ranked 160th of 1,272 crypto failures, with method, returned funds and comparable incidents.
- Date
- 24 July 2025
- Lost
- $14.0m
- Returned or repaid
- None recorded
- Target
- CEX
- Category
- Social Engineering
- Method
- Phishing
- Chains
- Bitcoin, Ethereum, Arbitrum, BSC
WOO X lost about $14M after attackers used a fake open-source collaboration request to trick a developer into opening a malicious development tool, then accessed the dev environment and made unauthorized withdrawals from nine user accounts across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Arbitrum and BSC.
Against the ledger
- It ranks 160th of the 1,272 incidents with a known loss, and 16th in 2025.
- It accounts for 9.7% of the $144.2m in known losses in July 2025.
- 61 incidents in the ledger are classified as Social Engineering, for $3.12bn in total. This one is 0.4% of that.
- The ledger records no returned funds.
Closest in size by the same method
| Date | Target | Lost | Type | Method | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04 Feb 2025 | Ionic Protocol | $8.6m | DeFi Protocol | Impersonation Scam | — |
| 02 Jul 2024 | Bittensor | $8.0m | DeFi Protocol | Malware | — |
| 11 Jul 2022 | Uniswap (Phishing Attack) | $8.0m | DeFi Protocol | Phishing | — |
| 15 Jul 2021 | Bondly | $5.9m | DeFi Protocol | Phishing | — |
| 05 Oct 2024 | EigenLayer | $5.7m | DeFi Protocol | Impersonation Scam | — |
All failures in 2025 · The failures ledger
Amounts are DefiLlama’s estimates and can change as incidents are revalued. Its returned figure can include money a company repaid itself, not only funds recovered from attackers. Source: DefiLlama.
Cite this Bitminer.io, “WOO X, failures ledger”, data to 2 November 2026, https://bitminer.io/ledger/incident/woo-x-2025-07-24/. How this is built